Putin is ecstatic Trump is raising an IRON CURTAIN between the US and Europe, and between the US and Ukraine.

For the whole world to see, what happened between Trump, Vance, and Zelelnsky was, really, a confrontation between Putin, Lavrov, and Zelensky.

What we also saw was a power play between  'bully' Trump, his 'ignorant', sidekick Vance, and a Zelensky who stood up to both of them.

 

BBC News: 28 February 2025

 

 Rachel Maddow (right), of MSNBC, critically learned two more details from the meeting viz. 

• that Trump let slip that he spoke with Putin but a few days ago. No-one knew about this, neither do they know exactly how frequently Trump and Putin have their tête-à-tête's without ANYONE knowing about it.

• a Russian state media reporter from Tass gained entry into the Oval Office for the Trump-Zelesky sit down, even as AP (Associated Press) and Reuters were barred from this high-level meeting. (MSNBC:  March 2025) (my emphasis)

 

 MSNBC:  March 2025: YouTube

The 'blatant and totally 'ignorant lies' spouted by Trump  about what the US has spent on Putin's war in Ukraine simply beggars belief.

As Nick Eardley (left) explains,

"The Kiel Institute is a German-based think tank tracking support going into Ukraine. It calculated that the United States spent $119.7bn (£94.3bn) on aid between January 2022 and December 2024
…
President Trump has claimed: "We've spent more than $300bn and Europe has spent about $100bn - that's a big difference"

Short answer: Figures suggest Europe has spent more when all aid is included and, as above, we can't find any evidence for the $300bn figure." (BBC News: 27 February 2025) (my emphasis)

In his interview with Trump, Macron gently corrects Trump on the aid the EU gave to Ukraine. 

 

BBC News: 27 February 2025

One is somewhat reminded of that saying of Goebbels that,

"If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it, and you will even come to believe it yourself." ~ Joseph Goebbels " (AZ Quotes)

By so often repeating the lie about giving Ukraine $350 billion, Trump has come to believe that lie himself.

It is without a doubt that the political world, and the people of the world, have now heard how Trump and his sidekick Vance are raising an IRON CURTAIN between the US and Europe.

Even more disconcerting is Trump practically shouting at Zelensky,

 

"You're gambling with World War Three ...You're gambling with World War Three" (ibid BBC News: 28 February 2025)

 

It would seem that all that Trump really wants is the mineral wealth of Ukraine, and has absolutely no concern about the facts that :-

• Putin illegally invaded and annexed Ukraine's Crimea in 2014, 
• Putin illegally invaded the Donbas of Ukraine in 2014, and
• Putin illegally invaded Ukraine in 2022 and set off a war that is still ongoing.
  

Ending the meeting, Trump angrily said to Zelensky,

 

"But you're either going to make a deal [to give us Ukraine's mineral wealth] or we're out " (ibid BBC News: 28 February 2025)

 

As Alexander Motyl  (left) pointed out in 2014, when Putin first invaded and illegally annexed Crimea,

"Now six days ago, (25th July 2014) Alexander J. Motyl  posed the following question:

" Is Putin evil? His actions certainly are, if by evil we understand behavior that willfully, consciously and purposely destroys human life. Perhaps we can call his actions undeniably evil and Putin himself "evil enough." Evil enough for what? Evil enough for condemnation by people of good will." (CNN: 25 July  2014) (my emphasis)

As I wrote in my last blog entry (24 February 2025 ), "Storm clouds are gathering."

The first 'thunderclap' has sounded.

Putin is ecstatic that Trump is raising an IRON CURTAIN between the US and Europe, and between the US and Ukraine

                                                                                

        

 

(to be continued)